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politics
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Young Adults Agree: Big Campaign Donors Have Too Much Power
By Matt NelsenNovember 2, 2026 With campaign spending projected to reach $11.6 billion by Election Day, 2026 is slated to become the most expensive midterm election cycle on record. While financial resources let candidates flood the airwaves and social media feeds with campaign advertisements, cash alone—as Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and Elon Musk can attest—won’t…
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The Public Health Cost of Policing for Young Black Adults
By Alyssa SutherlandSeptember 28, 2026 For years, the national conversation about policing has been centered on crime and public safety. We ask whether policing makes communities safer; we rarely ask what it does to the bodies of the people being policed. But a growing body of research within the public health field insists that policing…
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How TikTok Shapes Young People’s Politics
By Diane WongAugust 25, 2026 For years, lawmakers have debated whether TikTok should be banned in the United States. Much of this debate has centered on national security, data privacy, and geopolitical risks associated with the platform’s Chinese ownership. Yet after years of proposed bans and legal challenges in Congress, the courts, and the White…
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Young Adults’ Reimagining of U.S. Democracy on the Nation’s 250th
By Matt NelsenJuly 15th, 2026 The 250th Anniversary of America’s founding has been characterized by a mix of celebration for some and deep disillusionment for others. For young Americans, a strong distrust of government, significant affordability concerns, and the concentration of executive power has contributed to a belief that U.S. Democracy is in crisis. Even…
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Many U.S. Young Adults Do Not Trust Political Institutions
By Justin ZimmermanMarch 11th, 2026 Trust in the federal government is at its lowest point in United States’ history, and this distrust is a defining characteristic of the political lives of young people. Perceptions of government corruption, dissatisfaction with the major political parties, the deterioration of social services such as food stamps, and unprecedented overreach…
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What Young People Are Saying About the ICE Surge
By Diane WongFebruary 10th, 2026 Over the past several weeks, Minneapolis has become a city under siege as federal immigration enforcement has dramatically expanded its presence in the region. The Department of Homeland Security has deployed thousands of federal agents to Minneapolis, including from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection, under…
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Redefining Safety and Harm For A New Generation
By Jenn JacksonJanuary 13th, 2026 The Abolish Patriarchal Violence (APV) Study is a national multi-method research project of Black people’s experiences with both violence and safety in their homes, at work, and in their communities. This project began as a 100-year visioning exercise with the goal that in five generations from now, if you were…
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Gen Z’s Perspective on Immigration Policy and ICE
By Diane WongOctober 17th, 2025 For the first time in over half a century, the U.S. immigrant population has declined by more than a million people since Trump took office in January. Between January and June of this year, the foreign-born population fell from 53.3 million to 51.9 million, a decline that coincides with an…
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Data — Politics Towards 2020 (Oct 2019)
About the Survey The GenForward February survey is a project of Professor Cathy J. Cohen at the University of Chicago. Interviews were conducted with a representative sample from GenForwardSM, a nationally representative survey panel of adults ages 18-36 recruited and administered by NORC at the University of Chicago. The toplines for this survey include survey…
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Data — Midterm Elections (Sept 2018)
The GenForward February survey is a project of Professor Cathy J. Cohen at the University of Chicago. Interviews were conducted with a representative sample from GenForwardSM, a nationally representative survey panel of adults ages 18-34 recruited and administered by NORC at the University of Chicago. The toplines for this survey include survey findings, questions, responses,…